be still my heart…
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Chicken larb.
Not husband’s “favorite” , but a surprisingly good rescue from some dark meat chicken that I chopped in a food processor and looked like an aweful paste. In addition to the Omsom instructions,
Thanks again @mariacarmen
I found a suggestion online about starting in water that gave me hope.
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Grilled fajitas de pollo, pico de gallo and a salad of grilled corn, avocado, radish, green onion, oo and lime dressing with a sprinkle of cotija cheese and tajin.
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That bruschetta and cocktail are perfection.
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I’m curious how much a lobster roll goes for in Asheville. I had one the other day in our part of WA state (anniversary lunch but just a counter in a seafood market) and it was $20 for 1/2 that amount of lobster meat.
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This one was 16.95, I think.
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Looks like you got a better deal!
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That’s not a bad price for one at all. I was recently at the Ocean Casino in Atlantic City and I ordered lunch by the pool, I was surprised they had a lobster roll on the menu for $ 17 !!! I didn’t have it but someone in my party did and they enjoyed it!
Lobster is so pricey this summer. On my recent travels to Maine and Cape Cod, around $28 was a typical restaurant price I saw for a roll prepared with fresh-picked local lobster. I’d expect that rolls with pre-picked frozen/thawed lobster are more moderately priced.
And you’ll need to sit down for this next one. Sitting down?
So here’s a shocker: I went into a seafood market on the Cape where in-store steamed, prepicked lobster meat was priced at $74.99 per pound. Never have I seen that before! You can guess that item didn’t make it to our dinner table.
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The finished pita is a work of art. Not a bad balcony view either!
i found that the water trick did really help…
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In Rockland, ME steamed pre-picked lobster was $65/pound last week when I looked. At a very good fishmonger, so possibly less at the supermarket. Last summer when the industry was really hurting from lack of tourists it was $40/pound. A pound of picked meat is roughly 4 lobsters per that vg fishmonger. No idea what any of that means, just putting the info out there. And to think that 150 years or more ago, lobster was “poor people’s food”.
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OK folks, keeping it real. Power outage from about 4:30 to 7:00. Just when I was choosing between cheese and crackers or celery, radishes and carrots with blue cheese dressing to dip it came back on and I went with a couple of over easy eggs on toast spread with a lot of really hot Dijon mustard. Tasty and cleared the sinuses right out.
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I took a cue from @Saregama and made beetroot chicken
I used the IP slow-cooker setting and let the chicken go too long, but it was still tasty with cucumber raita, naan, and rice. And we got the kiddo to try some beet by talking up its, ahem, excretory effects.
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Dinner was inspired by a trip to the farmers market today. Marinated shrimp and nectarine wedges in oo and adobo seasoning and then grilled. Served over baby spring greens and avocado, topped with red onion, cayenne pepper and chiffonade of mint. Dressing was oo, lime juice, ginger, honey and a splash of Tabasco. It exceeded my expectations.
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I got on the carbonara train along with some of y’all as my H decided on an impromptu backpacking adventure. He is not a fan of these type of eggy/cheesy savories, so we are indulging w/o him. I used this recipe https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/simple-carbonara which involves an interesting technique I hadn’t seen before. Pull out the pasta early, then cook it in water and guanciale (me pancetta) fat, then temper the egg and cheese with pasta water before adding and keep adding water until the sauce is the consistency of heavy cream. It tasted very very nice. The close-up is due to the bowl not being very pretty.
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Dinner of stuff mostly from the fridge and freezer - flageolet beans, half of an avocado, tomato, savoy cabbage cooked in butter and chicken broth, lamb chop, harissa.
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Love flageolets!!
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Yay! Did you like it?
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